History

January 17 in Pop Culture History January 17th is… Bootlegger’s Day Cable Car Day National Classy Day Customer Service Day Hot Buttered Rum Day Hot Heads Chili Day Kid Inventors’ Day (K.I.D.) Happy Birthday, Benjamin Franklin! In movies and real life, whenever people talk about large amounts of money, they talk about the Benjamins. This […]

January 16 in Pop Culture History January 16th is… Appreciate A Dragon Day Book Publisher’s Day Fig Newton Day Hot and Spicy Food Day Nothing Day Religious Freedom Day Without a Scalpel Day 1362 – St. Marcellus Flood or Grote Mandrenke (Great Drowning of Men), Netherlands 1547 – Ivan the Terrible crowned himself 1st Tsar

January 15 in Pop Culture History January 15th is… American Eskimo Dog Day Bagel Day Booch Day Fresh Squeezed Juice Day Hat Day Strawberry Ice Cream Day It’s National Hat Day because in 1797, the 1st top hat was worn, by John Etherington in London. There are 350 days left until next year. (unless it

January 14 in Pop Culture History January 14th is… Caesarean Section Day Dress Up Your Pet Day Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day Kite Day Organize Your Home Day Ratification Day 1690 – The Clarinet was invented in Nurnberg, Germany 1794 – Elizabeth Hog Bennett became the first woman in the US to successfully give birth to

January 13 in Pop Culture History January 13th is… French Bulldog Day Korean American Day Make Your Dream Come True Day National Peach Melba Day Public Radio Broadcasting Day National Rubber Ducky Day Skeptics Day National Sticker Day Stephen Foster Memorial Day 1854 – US patent (#11062) for an accordion was issued to Anthony Faas

January 12 in Pop Culture History January 12th is… Curried Chicken Day Kiss a Ginger Day Hot Tea Day Marzipan Day National Pharmacist Day Work Harder Day “I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a

January 11 in Pop Culture History January 11th is… Arkansas Day Hot Toddy Day Human Trafficking Awareness Day Milk Day Secret Pal Day Sketchnote Day Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day 1693 (Earthquake) Sicily, Italy 1908 – The Grand Canyon National Monument was created. 1922 – Leonard Thompson (1908-35) was the first

January 10 in Pop Culture History January 10th is… Bittersweet Chocolate Day Cut Your Energy Costs Day Houseplant Appreciation Day Oysters Rockefeller Day Poetry at Work Day National Save the Eagles Day 1776 – Common Sense by Thomas Paine was published. 1863 – London’s Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opened. 1870 – John

January 9 in Pop Culture History January 9th is… National Apricot Day Australian Shepherd Day National Balloon Ascension Day Cassoulet Day International Choreographers Day Clean Off Your Desk Day National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Static Electricity Day 1693 (Earthquake) Sicily, Italy 1788 – Connecticut became the 5th state 1793 – Jean Pierre Blanchard made the